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• Woman slated to replace Puerto Rican governor says she doesn't want the job

  28-07-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The governor is stepping down after a leaked chat surfaced in which he insulted women and victims of hurricane Maria.
  
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• Donald Trump 'richly deserves' to be impeached, says top Democrat on House committee

  28-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump "richly deserves" to be impeached, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which can unilaterally launch proceedings to remove the president from office has said. Rep. Jerrold Nadler has previously said that Mr Trump was guilty of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" - the benchmark for impeachment - but these were his strongest comments yet. "My personal opinion is that [Trump] richly deserves impeachment," Rep. Nadler told CNN's 'State of the Union'. "He has done many i
  
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• 'I promise you, you're wrong': Fox News' Wallace shuts down Mulvaney claim Mueller vindicated Trump

  28-07-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  "The record will show what it shows. I promise you, you're wrong," Wallace said after Mulvaney claimed Mueller had cleared Trump of obstruction.
  
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• Puerto Rico chaos: Governor-apparent Wanda Vázquez doesn't want the job

  28-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The woman in line to become governor of Puerto Rico said she hopes Gov. Rosselló appoints a secretary of state who would then serve as his successor.
  
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• Trump names John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence

  28-07-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The Texas congressman stood up for the president during last week’s Mueller hearings.
  
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• EU must move faster to prepare for no-deal Brexit risk - CBI

  28-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union is less prepared for a no-deal Brexit than Britain, potentially leaving British firms at a disadvantage if there is no transition agreement and weakening London's hand in future trade talks, a British employers group said."The combination of the EU and UK's different approaches creates an imbalance, where EU goods and services exports will have easier access to the UK than UK goods and services exports will to the EU," the CBI said in a report.
  
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• Romania suspect admits killing two teenage girls, charged with murder

  28-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Romania has admitted to killing two teenage girls including a 15-year-old whose disappearance this week shook the country and claimed the scalp of the police chief, the suspect's lawyer said Sunday.The suspect, named as 65-year-old Gheorghe Dinca, "has confessed his crimes", lawyer Alexandru Bogdan was quoted as saying by Agerpres news agency.After initially refusing to answer any questions, Dinca eventually caved and admitted to the murders of Alexandra who vanished on Wednesday and 19
  
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• Trump doubles down on Cummings attacks, shares vulgar comment about Baltimore on Twitter

  28-07-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump doubled down on his attacks against House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district he called a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” by retweeting a comment from a British columnist who referred to Baltimore as a “proper sh*thole.”
  
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• Liberal groups seek to make Supreme Court an issue in 2020 presidential race, and conservatives exult

  28-07-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate over the shape and structure of the high court threatens to upend the presidential race and further politicize the nation's judiciary.
  
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• World Diplomats Recommit to Salvaging Iran Nuclear Deal

  28-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Diplomats from Iran and five world powers recommitted Sunday to salvaging a major nuclear deal amid mounting tensions between the West and Tehran since the U.S. withdrew from the accord and reimposed sanctions.
  
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• Chaser: ‘World’s smartest dog’, which knew over 1,000 words, dies aged 15

  28-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John Pilley, a retired psychiatrist, taught his border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition.In 2004, Mr Pilley bought a black-and-white border collie he named Chaser.For three years, Mr Pilley trained her for four to five hours a day. He showed her an object, said its name up to 40 times, then hid it and asked her to find it.He used 800 cloth animal toys,
  
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• Two-year-old boy missing after both parents found dead in apparent 'murder-suicide'

  28-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide. The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak died after fleeing from police. The couple, who had felony burglary warrants for their arrest, were found dead on Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana. Shortly before, officers had stopped a car and identified Salcido and Janiak inside. How
  
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• 'My babies are dead': Iraq War vet free on bail after kids' hot car deaths

  28-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Death of twin 1-year-olds brings to 23 the number of hot car deaths this year across the nation.
  
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• Incredible photo shows an elderly woman standing up for the youth in Hong Kong

  28-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful image of an elderly woman trying to stop the Hong Kong protests has gone viral after photographer Laurel Chor posted her picture on Twitter. Chor posted the picture in response to reporter Joshua Long's video of the same woman asking riot police not to shoot the young protesters. Her image only added to the growing mythos of the woman in the blue shirt who really, really wanted the cops to behave themselves.> Elderly citizen standing in front of the police line to defense Yuen
  
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• Nigerian govt bans Shiite group after deadly clashes

  28-07-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigeria's presidency on Sunday said the government was banning a Shiite group after a spate of deadly clashes at protests in the capital.Tensions have risen between the authorities and the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as demonstrations in Abuja to free pro-Iranian leader Ibrahim Zakzaky have descended into violence.Punch newspaper reported on Saturday the government had secured a court order allowing it to prohibit the group's activities as "terrorism and illegality".
  
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• Bernie Sanders denounces 'greed' of American drug companies

  28-07-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies Sunday of letting diabetic patients die out of "greed," after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin.Sanders joined the group, which took a bus from the US city of Detroit to Windsor, Ontario to restock on insulin, which costs 10 times more in the United States than in its northern neighbor."How come the same exact medicine, in this case insulin, is sold here in Canada for one-tenth of the price
  
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• White House chief says 'everything Donald Trump says is offensive'

  28-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s White House has defended the president in the wake of incendiary tweets he launched at a senior Democratic congressman of colour whose district he claimed was “rodent and rat infested”. Mick Mulvaney, the president’s acting chief of staff, described the tweets as “hyperbolic” after they sparked backlash across the country and among top Democrats, who rebuked the “racist attacks”. “I understand that everything Donald Trump says
  
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• Pennsylvania man accused of killing wife apologizes to victim's family

  28-07-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged in the death of his wife at their eastern Pennsylvania home on the Fourth of July has apologized to her family, but declined to say anything to the rest of the community.
  
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• Trump says no tariff waivers for Apple on Mac Pro parts made in China

  28-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Friday he would not grant tariff waivers or relief to Apple for Mac Pro parts made in China.
  
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• Dan Coats, intelligence chief who clashed with Donald Trump, 'to step down'

  28-07-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Dan Coats, the US director of national intelligence who clashed repeatedly with Donald Trump, is reportedly to step down from his position within days.  Mr Coats, 76, had disagreements with the president over Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Brexit. Mr Trump was said to be considering replacing him with John Ratcliffe, a Republican congressman who has been a staunch loyalist, according to the New York Times.  Mr Ratcliffe sits on the House judiciary committee, and Mr Trump was said to ha
  
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• Julian Castro Is ‘Hypercritical’ Of Trump Immigration Policies He Once Praised Under Obama

  28-07-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, a fervent opponent of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, was called out for his past praise of former President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement policies.“I want to ask you about immigration which you have made a part of your campaign focus,” said “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan Sunday. “When you were mayor of San Antonio, you testified before Congress and you called for increased
  
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• Scott says he wasn't told about Russian hacking in 2016

  28-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said Sunday that he was never told by Homeland Security officials in 2016 when he was Florida's governor that Russian hackers had gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties ahead of the presidential election.Scott said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he was never contacted by the Department of Homeland Security in 2016 about the infiltration.Current Gov. Ron DeSantis said in May that the hackers didn't manipulate any data and the election results weren't comprom
  
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• Iran Took Advantage of the Royal Navy's Weakness

  28-07-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Great Britain once had a marvelous navy, its warships boasting names like Courageous, Dauntless, Indefatigable, and Ultimatum. Her fleets were more than a source of national pride—they manifested it, a physical assurance that Britain had the ability to see to its national interests.In the early 1980s, not too long after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, the Royal Navy sailed sixty-four surface combatants and sixteen submarines. Today, the British fleet has dwindled to a mere ninetee
  
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• Wall Street Journal Corrects ‘Bombshell’ Report On North Korea Nukes

  28-07-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Wall Street Journal quietly added a massive correction to a story that, if accurate, would have had significant implications for nuclear talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.On Thursday, the newspaper reported that analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believe that North Korea may have developed as many as 12 nuclear weapons since the historic Trump-Kim summit in Singapore June 12, 2018.“Analysts at the U.S. Defense
  
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• Nigeria bans local Shi'ite group after protests

  28-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigeria's government has banned a Shi'ite Muslim group whose followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their detained leader, accusing the group of inciting violence.At least 20 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria have been killed over the past week during a series of protests that have shown little sign of abating, raising pressure on the government.Nigerian police have responded with teargas and gunfire to the protests and a court on Saturday granted the government p
  
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• Police: 1998 Arkansas school shooter killed in crash

  28-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was 11 years old in 1998 when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school has died in a crash on a northeastern Arkansas highway, the State Police said.Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died at around 9 p.m. Saturday, television station KAIT reported.Three other people were injured in the crash and taken to hospitals, according to a State Police preliminary summary o
  
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• American teen arrested in Italian police officer's death 'illegally blindfolded'

  28-07-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  An American teenager was 'illegally blindfolded' before he was questioned about his alleged involvement in an Italian police officer's death.
  
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• Italian police launch investigation into picture showing blindfolded US suspect in Rome police murder

  28-07-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian police have launched an investigation into a picture showing a US student suspected of killing an officer, in a blindfold and handcuffs soon after the arrest. Two American teenagers were arrested on Saturday in Rome accused of the stabbing murder of Italian military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega in a drug deal gone awry.  Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, are both from San Francisco and had been holidaying in the Italian capital. The pair ar
  
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• 'Pink Lady Bandit,' wanted by FBI after string of bank robberies along the East Coast

  28-07-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the suspect who robbed four banks along the East Coast.
  
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• Democrats and media condemn Trump’s racist Cummings attack

  28-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  * Baltimore Sun: ‘Better to have some vermin than to be one’ * Mulvaney insists Trump not racist, just fighting back* David Simon: Trump is a ‘simplistic, racist moron’In its response to Donald Trump’s racist attack on congressman Elijah Cummings, the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun said it “would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner”.But it did enumerate some of the president’s failings in office and liken him to a creature he said
  
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• Brazil miners kill tribal leader in Amazon land invasion

  28-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Armed miners have reportedly invaded a village in a remote part of Brazil and killed a tribal leader. Villagers fled but were planning to return, sparking fears of a "bloodbath," according to local reports. The violence began last week when the indigenous leader was reportedly stabbed to death in an area belonging to the Waiapi tribe in Amapa state, in the north of the country. It came as around 50 miners, known as "garimpeiros," were said to have overrun the Waiapi village of Mariry. The leader
  
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• U.K. Deploys Destroyer to Protect Shipping in Hormuz Strait

  28-07-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. has deployed one of its Type 45 warships to help escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British vessel amid heightening tensions with the West.The frigate, HMS Duncan, will operate alongside the Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose Type 23 to shepherd British-flagged ships through the strait, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The air defense destroyer will operate until late August, it said.Oman, which shares the waterway with Iran,
  
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• Death toll in Nigeria Boko Haram attack up to 65: official

  28-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday."It is 65 people dead and 10 injured," local government chairman Muhammed Bulama said.Bulama said more than 20 people died in the initial attack on a funeral gathering.
  
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• Kenya governor of president's home area held for corruption

  28-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The governor of President Uhuru Kenyatta's home region has been detained by authorities, a lawyer said Sunday.It is the latest of a series of arrests of top government officials in a push by Kenyatta to crackdown on runaway graft.Governor Ferdinand Waititu surrendered himself Sunday to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission following prosecution orders issued Friday by the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji, said his lawyer Kipchumba Karori.
  
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• Trump wins SCOTUS case to allow Pentagon funding to build border wall

  28-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Retired ICE supervisor Thomas Kilbride says the Supreme Court did the right thing, this is a big victory for the president.
  
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• Emmett Till memorial will be made bulletproof after photo of gun-toting students surfaces

  28-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Emmett Till's memorial will be bulletproof after outrage over a photo of three gun-toting Ole Miss students posing in front of the sign.
  
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• British woman who alleged gang rape in Cyprus arrested on suspicion of making a false allegation

  28-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A British woman who claimed she was gang-raped in Cyprus has been arrested on suspicion of making a false accusation as police released seven Israeli tourists from custody. The 19-year-old woman had claimed that 12 Israeli teenagers raped her on July 17 at a hotel in the popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa. The teenagers were remanded in custody the following day. Five were sent home hours before their second scheduled court hearing last Thursday after no evidence was found against them. The oth
  
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• Surprise: The first device to get Huawei’s Android alternative isn’t a phone

  28-07-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Ahead of releasing its operating results next week covering the first half of the year, Huawei has finally revealed the first device that will be based on its proprietary operating system that once seemed destined as the company's Plan B for losing Android access as a result of the US ban. However, the first device getting the company's Hongmeng OS won't actually be a phone, as once assumed -- it will instead be a TV with a smart screen, the company announced at a launch event Friday for its fir
  
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• The Latest: Iran official says 24 tons of uranium enriched

  28-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization says the country has enriched 24 tons of uranium since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.The nuclear accord included a stockpile limit of 300 kilograms.Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by state TV on Sunday as saying Iran "did not enrich 300 kilograms of uranium, but enriched 24 (metric) tons of uranium," or what is 24,000 kilograms (nearly 53,000 pounds.).
  
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• Mueller in testimony to Congress resists GOP push to reveal more about $10k payment to Papadopoulos

  28-07-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Former 2016 Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos weighs in on the $10,000 payment he received in Israel.
  
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• Romania suspect admits murdering two teenage girls

  28-07-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Romania has admitted to killing two teenage girls including a 15-year-old whose disappearance this week shook the country and claimed the scalp of the police chief, the suspect's lawyer said Sunday.The suspect, named as 65-year-old Gheorghe Dinca, "has confessed his crimes", lawyer Alexandru Bogdan was quoted as saying by Agerpres news agency.After initially refusing to answer any questions, Dinca eventually caved and admitted to the murders of Alexandra who vanished on Wednesday and 19
  
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• Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port

  28-07-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome on Sunday refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU."The Gregoretti berthed in the port of Augusta overnight, as is the normal procedure for a military vessel.Now the EU has to act because the migration question concerns the whole continent," Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said in a statement.
  
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• NYPD officer's widow speaks out on police attacks

  28-07-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Peixia Chen says the water dousings of NYPD officers are 'disrespectful.'
  
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• 'Democrats overreached on this': Chris Christie on Mueller hearings

  28-07-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Powerhouse Roundtable discusses the Mueller report, election security and the Democratic debates on "This Week."
  
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• Woman wakes up in hotel, finds snake on her arm: 'I won't be sleeping for a while after this'

  28-07-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk about a rude awakening: A woman staying at a Hampton Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, woke up to find a snake stretched across her arm.
  
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• Indian villagers beat tiger to death after attacks

  28-07-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  An investigation has been launched in India after a tigress blamed for injuring a number of villagers was clubbed to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The killing was compared to a “lynching” by Indian media and online commentators after news channels aired footage of over 40 villagers beating the tiger to death with sticks and clubs. Forestry Department officials said they tried to intervene and remove the animal from the game reserve that bordered the village in Uttar P
  
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• Iran says European fleet in Gulf would be 'provocative'

  28-07-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran on Sunday slammed as "provocative" a British proposal for a European-led naval mission to escort tankers in the Gulf, amid soaring tensions over the seizure of ships."We heard that they intend to send a European fleet to the Persian Gulf which naturally carries a hostile message, is provocative and will increase tensions," said government spokesman Ali Rabiei.Britain said on Monday it was planning a European-led force to escort tankers through the world's busiest oil shipping lane, the Stra
  
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• Vietnam detains 380 Chinese people in illegal online gambling bust

  28-07-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Vietnam on Sunday detained more than 380 Chinese people accused of running the country's largest-ever underground online gambling ring, the government said.Gambling is illegal in Vietnam in most cases, though foreigners are allowed to gamble at local casinos.Last year, Vietnam said it would allow some local citizens to gamble at selected casinos on a trial basis.
  
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• Hong Kong plunges into pandemonium for second day in a row as protests continue

  28-07-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong descended into pandemonium for the second day in a row on Sunday as police again fired tear gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters as clashes in the city become increasingly violent.   In the western end of Hong Kong island, rounds of tear gas coming from all sides were fired continuously to disperse protesters as riot police charged forward, beating people with batons and shields and cuffing others. Anger among the largely peaceful demonstrators has escalated sig
  
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• Senior Democrat Nadler: No deadline for Trump impeachment

  28-07-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday rejected the notion that Democrats must decide whether to pursue the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump before the 2020 election season shifts into high gear.With some Democrats warning that the window for impeachment was closing with the approach of elections, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler was asked if he thought there was a deadline."No, I don't," Nadler told CNN's "State of the Union." His commi
  
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